Gender, turning points, and boomerangs: returning home in young adulthood in Great Britain

The idea of a generation of young adults “boomeranging” back to the parental home has gained widespread currency in the British popular press. However, there is little empirical research identifying either increasing rates of returning home or the factors associated with this trend. This article addresses this gap in the literature using data from a long-running household panel survey to examine the occurrence and determinants of returning to the parental home. We take advantage of the longitudinal design of the British Household Panel Survey (1991–2008) and situate returning home in the context of other life-course transitions. We demonstrate how turning points in an individual’s life course—such as leaving full-time education, unemployment, or partnership dissolution—are key determinants of returning home. An increasingly unpredictable labor market means that graduate employment cannot be taken for granted following university graduation, and returning home upon completion of higher education is becoming normative. We also find that gender moderates the relationship among partnership dissolution, parenthood, and returning to the parental home, reflecting the differential welfare support in Great Britain for single parents compared with nonresident fathers and childless young adults

Australian National Standards of Care for Childhood-onset Heart Disease (CoHD Standards). 1st Edition

These first Australian National Standards of Care for Childhood-onset Heart Disease (CoHD Standards) have been developed to inform the healthcare requirements for CoHD services and enable all Australian patients, families and carers impacted by CoHD (paediatric CoHD and adult congenital heart disease [ACHD]) to live their best and healthiest lives. The CoHD Standards are designed to provide the clarity and certainty required for healthcare services to deliver excellent, comprehensive, inclusive, and equitable CoHD care across Australia for patients, families and carers, and offer an iterative roadmap to the future of these services. The CoHD Standards provide a framework for excellent CoHD care, encompassing key requirements and expectations for whole-of-life, holistic and connected healthcare service delivery. The CoHD Standards should be implemented in health services in conjunction with the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards developed by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. All healthcare services should comply with the CoHD Standards, as well as working to their organisation's or jurisdiction's agreed clinical governance framework, to guide the implementation of structures and processes that support safe care

Exome sequencing identifies NMNAT1 mutations as a cause of Leber congenital amaurosis

Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is an autosomal recessive retinal dystrophy that manifests with genetic heterogeneity. We sequenced the exome of an individual with LCA and identified nonsense (c.507G > A, p.Trp169*) and missense (c.769G > A, p.Glu257Lys) mutations in NMNAT1, which encodes an enzyme in the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) biosynthesis pathway implicated in protection against axonal degeneration. We also found NMNAT1 mutations in ten other individuals with LCA, all of whom carry the p.Glu257Lys variant.Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB)985 Project Grant from the Ministry of Education of ChinaQiangjiang Research Talent grantScience and Technology Department of Zhejiang ProvinceNatural Science Foundation of Zhejiang ProvinceOregon Health & Science UniversityBeijing Genom Inst BGI Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Peoples R ChinaCasey Eye Inst, Mol Diagnost Lab, Portland, OR USAZhejiang Univ, Struct Biol Ctr, Inst Life Sci, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang, Peoples R ChinaZhejiang Univ, Sch Med, Affiliated Hosp 1, Ctr Genet & Genom Med, Hangzhou 310003, Zhejiang, Peoples R ChinaWomens & Childrens Hosp, SA Clin Genet Serv, Adelaide, SA, AustraliaRetina Fdn SW, Dallas, TX USASickKids Hosp, Dept Ophthalmol, Toronto, ON, CanadaOregon Hlth & Sci Univ, Casey Eye Inst, Portland, OR 97201 USAUniv Fed Goias, Ctr Referencia Oftalmol CEROF, Dept Ocular Genet, Goiania, Go, BrazilUniv Rochester, Med Ctr, Dept Pathol, Rochester, NY 14642 USAUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Dept Ophthalmol, São Paulo, BrazilUniversidade Federal de São Paulo, Dept Ophthalmol, São Paulo, BrazilQiangjiang Research Talent grant: 2006R10018Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province: R2100439Oregon Health & Science University: IRB00008083Web of Scienc

Consumer ethnocentrism: Reconceptualization and cross-cultural validation

Consumer ethnocentrism (CE) is a popular construct in international marketing research and is generally measured using the CETSCALE, a reliable scale with proven predictive validity but with limited evidence about its construct validity, dimensionality and cross-cultural measurement invariance. This note addresses these gaps by reconceptualizing CE as an attitude construct consisting of three dimensions: (1) affective reaction, (2) cognitive bias and (3) behavioral preference. A revised CE scale (CES) is developed and tested using two empirical studies with adult consumers from four different countries (China, India, UK and USA), showing that CES is a reliable, valid and cross-culturally invariant scale and it explains greater variance than the CETSCALE and other similar scales, in customer evaluations and behavioral intentions for a wide range of products and services